Caesalpinia- decandria monogynia. 360 



INTolina raccmosa. Lamarck. Encyclop. 4. 227. and Ca- 

 van. Diss. 9. t. 2()3. 



Sida pou. Rheed. Mai. 6. t. 59. 



Teling. Vedal-tshittu. 



Beng. Madlueva htta, or MadhubwlMta, also Mai tee. 



Found in various parts of India. It flowers durini? the 

 rainy and cold season. The blossoms are uncommonly 

 beautiful, and exceedingly fragrant. 



2. G. obtusifoUa. R. 



Leaves oblong, obtuse. All the petals round, the low- 

 er two expanded, the upper three reflex. 



A native of China, and from thence brought to the Bo- 

 tanic garden at Calcutta, prior to 1793. Lii<e racemosa, 

 it is a large, scandent, somewhat twining shrub ; running 

 over trees of considerable size. Flowering time the month 

 of March. Its blossoms are smaller, less beautiful, and 

 not so fragrant, as those of G. racemosa. 



Flowers of five petals, the lower two, more expanded, the 

 upper three completely reflexed, all elegantly fiinged round 

 the margins, the uppermost one has a rosy tinge round a 

 yellowish base, where two curved hornlets project in to- 

 ward the stamina, the other four are white. Filaments un- 

 equal, ascending in a beautiful curve ; the lower one much 

 larger, and longer. Germ superior, three-lobed, each lobe 

 crowned With one larger, and two smaller,semilunar,hairy 

 processes, which in the fertile lobes become wings ; each 

 lobe contains a single seed attached to the inner and 

 upper anjile of the cell. Style ascending, nearly as 

 long as the long filament. Stigma simple, incurved. 

 Samara, rarely more than one of the three come to ma- 

 turity, globose, villous, of a soft chafly texture, three- 

 winged ; wings lanceolate, scariose, one of them larger, 

 betw een it and the base is a small scar, the mark of the 

 attachment of the style. Seed single, round. Integument 

 single, tender, brown, attached to the samara under the 



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